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I built a tiny AI camera to manage my apartment
I am a software engineer with ADHD and 3 weeks ago I set out to built someone valuable with AI that would actually help me in real life. There is a lot of crud being done with AI that goes viral so I really wanted to build something meaningful. I am the type of person that can walk past a stack of dishes for a week. Procrastination 101. I wanted to build something that would hold me accountable, just like my mom may have done growing up. Before this project I had never done anything with hardware before, nor 3D printing. But I was determined and on a missions to make this work! The first problem to solve was that task apps for people like me simply don’t work. If I download them, there’s a 10% chance I even make it through onboarding. If I do, I don’t follow through. No way I’m respecting that thing haha. Solution: let AI both create and complete the tasks for me! All it needs to do is treat me like a human with fun notifications, keeps tabs on what needs done, and reward me when I do things right. For the last week I’ve let it run in my place and my kitchen has never been cleaner! I decided to work in a feature where I can change the personality / tone and now it roasts me in fun ways when my dishes start to pile up. I wanted to share this story here because you truly can just do things! I had never sourced technical components before, coded firmware, or done iOT. This has really helped me too! Posting as a success but also heavily interested in letting others test it out now! I spun up a quick landing page here: https://withhup.com submitted by /u/djangojedi [link] [comments]
| | I am a software engineer with ADHD and 3 weeks ago I set out to built someone valuable with AI that would actually help me in real life. There is a lot of crud being done with AI that goes viral so I really wanted to build something meaningful. I am the type of person that can walk past a stack of dishes for a week. Procrastination 101. I wanted to build something that would hold me accountable, just like my mom may have done growing up. Before this project I had never done anything with hardware before, nor 3D printing. But I was determined and on a missions to make this work! The first problem to solve was that task apps for people like me simply don’t work. If I download them, there’s a 10% chance I even make it through onboarding. If I do, I don’t follow through. No way I’m respecting that thing haha. Solution: let AI both create and complete the tasks for me! All it needs to do is treat me like a human with fun notifications, keeps tabs on what needs done, and reward me when I do things right. For the last week I’ve let it run in my place and my kitchen has never been cleaner! I decided to work in a feature where I can change the personality / tone and now it roasts me in fun ways when my dishes start to pile up. I wanted to share this story here because you truly can just do things! I had never sourced technical components before, coded firmware, or done iOT. This has really helped me too! Posting as a success but also heavily interested in letting others test it out now! I spun up a quick landing page here: https://withhup.com [link] [comments] |
